Improvement in clothes-driers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE F. SNOVER, OF MENASHA, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 57.204. dated August-14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE F. SNovER, of Menasha, Winnebago county,State of Wiscousin, have invented a new and Improved Clothes Bar orHolder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, which will enable others skilled .in the artto make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specitication.

rlhe present invention relates to a novelconstructed bar or holder forclothes, towels, and other textile fabrics, which is especially adaptedand intended for household use; and the bar or holder consists of aseries of bars or rods so hung within a common head or frame andextending in radial lines therefrom that, when not desired to use anyone or all of such bars, they can be swung up and into a verticalposition, and there held, and thereby out ofthe way and occupying but acomparatively small amount of space, as will be obvious from thefollowing detailed description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying plate of drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan or top viewof the holder with its several bars swung out and in a horizontalposition; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section through the head of theholder, taken in the plane ofthe line afa, Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a similarsection to Fig. 2, but taken in the plane of the line y y, Fig. 1, andwith a bar swung up or ina vertical position.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

4 A in the drawings represents the head of the holder, which is formedof two plates, B and G, one, B, of which is flat, and has formed uponits lower end a semicircular-shaped projecting collar, D, having asquare shoulder, E, around its periphery, and the other, E, is attachedto the upper portion of the at plate B by riveting, or in any otherproper manner, and projects outward in a semicircular form or shape, F,with a series of radial slots, G, cut in the same, tapering in widthfrom their outer ends inward. In each of these slots Gr one end of abar, H, is placed, that, when swung down and in a horizontal position,as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, rests upon the lower end of the slot, and isprevented from being drawn out by the weight of any clothes or towels orother fabrics then hung upon such bar by coming to a bearing against theupper ends of the slot, and by the pin or stud a inserted in it, whichpin is upon the inside'of the portion c of the holder, the bar, whenswung up and into a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, resting bysuch pin a upon the lower end of the slot G, and by its lower endagainst the squareshaped shoulder of the collar of the back plate, B.

The number of bars H used depends upon the number of slots made in thehead, as well, also, as its size, each bar being arranged siinilarly tothat hereinabove explained, and oper ating also substantially the same.

To secure the head to the wall of a room an aperture, I, is made in thebuck plate, of such a shape that, while it can be freely placed over anyscrew-head or staple inserted in the wall,

the plate can pass under the head of such screw or staple, and thus befirmly and securely held in place, as plainly shown in Fig. 3 of thedrawings.

From the above description of my improved clothes-holder it is plainlyapparent that it is extremely simple and cheap in construction, and inuse very convenient, and susceptible ot' being so swung up against thewall, when not in use, as to aiiord no obstruction or inconvenience inpassing around and about the room, thereby being especially adapted tosmall conipartinents, chambers, and other places where only desired tobe used occasionally.

l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combinationof the plate B, with its shouldered collar D, the slotted plate F, andbars H, with studs a, constructed as described, and operating in themanner and for the pur pose specified.

THEODORE F. SNOVER.

Witnesses CHARLES H. JONES, JosErH TURNER.

